Nothing from an app store
It opens in the browser you already use. Add it to your home screen for a one-tap shortcut if you like — that just saves a link, nothing downloads and no store is involved.
No app store, no download. Open Thundr in your phone’s browser, allow your camera, and you are in a video chat on your phone with someone new. Front camera or rear, your call — one tap for the next face.
A video chat on your phone should not mean a download, an account and a stack of permissions. Thundr opens in your mobile browser and starts a chat the moment you allow your camera — the same random, one-on-one video chat you would get on a laptop, sized for a phone.
Because it is a web app, there is nothing sitting on your device between sessions. Open the tab when you want to talk, close it when you are done. Plenty of people only ever use it on a phone, and it is built for exactly that.
It opens in the browser you already use. Add it to your home screen for a one-tap shortcut if you like — that just saves a link, nothing downloads and no store is involved.
You start on your front camera, so you are on screen. During a video chat you can flip to the rear camera — useful when you would rather show what is around you than your face.
Pick voice mode before you match and a chat uses much less data than video. (Covering the camera mid-call only hides the picture — it does not cut the data, so voice is the real way to go lighter.)
Portrait is fine — no need to turn the phone sideways. Prop it up or hold it; the layout is built for a screen you are holding in one hand.
Wondering why there is nothing to install in the first place? Here is how a no-download video chat works.
Yes. Thundr runs in your phone’s browser, so there is nothing to install from an app store. You can add it to your home screen for a one-tap shortcut, but that only saves a link — nothing downloads.
Your front camera by default, so you are on screen. During a video chat you can flip to the rear camera at any point — handy when you would rather show what is around you than your own face.
Pick voice mode before you match — a voice chat uses much less data than video. Turning the camera off during a video chat only covers the picture; it does not cut the data, so voice is the real way to go lighter.
It is free to start on a phone just like on a laptop — the same site, with no card and no sign-up to begin. Only some longer or premium extras use coins.
For a video match your camera is part of it, but you have options: flip to the rear camera so it shows what you point it at, or choose voice or text mode before you are matched — those modes are picked at the start.
Skip and mute your own mic are one tap on the chat screen, and you can leave any time. To report or block someone, open their profile. Automated and human moderation run in the background as well.
Video and camera use take power, like any video call. If you want to go lighter, voice mode uses less — and because nothing runs in the background, closing the tab stops it completely.